Sustainability

We’re very lucky to have our cafe in such a beautiful setting, and feel very aware of the importance of doing our best to limit our negative impact on the environment. Eating out doesn’t have to be less environmentally-friendly than cooking at home – after all, we’re cooking in batches, on partly solar-powered super-efficient electric induction hobs, often with food that has travelled just a few metres.

So to make sure we’re doing the best we can, we focus on sourcing, limiting waste and single use products, disposing of waste responsibly, and helping our customers to do their bit too.

We have a target to use just half a black bin bag of unrecyclable waste per day. To meet this, we have a sustainability strategy, with measurable targets that we work towards, and a monthly Operations Meeting with representatives from across the Farm, sharing ideas and successes between departments, and making small steps that add up to big changes.

Of course we have all the usual recycling – everything from order tickets to hand towels, ice cream tubs, tetrapaks, cans, foil, bottles and jars and plastic. We re-use where we can too, so the bags our bread is delivered in become bin liners, punnets and egg boxes are reused for farm produce, some plastics that aren’t collected by contractors get taken to our local supermarket who send them for recycling.

In addition we have a huge composting system on site, which benefits the soil that feeds our lovely produce. Leftovers from plates are closely monitored to check we have our portion sizes right, and any uneaten food is collected for anaerobic digestion. This goes with our Vegware packaging used for takeaway drinks, salads and homemade houmous and dips. We use beeswax wraps instead of clingfilm wherever it would do as good a job. We are also an Ellacycle collection point, where you can deposit any brand of baby food pouch – please bring them in fully squeezed out and with the lid on tight to make this a more pleasant job for us!

Our approach to becoming an environmentally sustainable business is always evolving and we welcome all contributions to the discussion. We’re always on the lookout for ways t improve.

Our 3-year Sustainability Strategy outlines targets we’ve already met such as using only environmentally friendly cleaning products, and future targets such as phasing out single use takeaway cups completely (bring a reusable cup and get 10%off!). We’ll continue to make switches and substitutions that help protect the lovely environment we can see out the window, and around the world too.

We won!

We’re thrilled to have won Best Family Friendly in the Bristol Good Food Awards for the third time! Big thanks to all our lovely customers and those who nominated us.